Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Release Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9780393881721
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393881725
ISBN-13
9780393881721
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17050067061
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stiff : the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
As weird as the book gets, Roach manages to convey a sense of respect and appreciation for her subjects., A laugh-out-loud funny book... one of those wonderful books that offers up enlightenment in the guise of entertainment., Roach writes in an insouciant style and displays her métier in tangents about bizarre incidents in pathological history. Death may have the last laugh, but, in the meantime, Roach finds merriment in the macabre., This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession.... You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is., Roach is authoritative, endlessly curious and drolly funny. Her research is scrupulous and winningly presented., Mary Roach is one of an endangered species: a science writer with a sense of humor. She is able to make macabre funny without looting death of its dignity.
Synopsis
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."-- Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers--some willingly, some unwittingly--have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way. In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries--from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them., For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. "Delightful--though never disrespectful" (Les Simpson, Time Out New York ), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die? "This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is." --Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal "Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting." -- Entertainment Weekly, Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach's "acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating" (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue.
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